AUBURN HILLS - It's been a common theme this season for the Detroit Pistons.

A double-digit lead turning into a loss.

The Pistons led the Utah Jazz by as many as 15 points, only to fall, 90-87, dropping Detroit's record to 14-24 on the season.

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Of the 24 losses the Pistons have, 10 of those have come in games when Detroit had a double-digit lead at some point in the contest.

Saturday saw the Pistons get off to a fast start, jumping out to an 11-2 lead that turned into a 26-13 advantage after one quarter of play.

The Pistons were able to establish the lead with their passing, as they had eight assists on their 11 first-quarter field goals. The defense also held Utah to 6 of 20 shooting.

The lead would build to 39-24 in the second quarter before the Jazz started to make their comeback. The second half was all Utah, as the Jazz outscored Detroit 51-37, including 25-11 in the third quarter.

"I think we started to play some frustration basketball offensively," Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said. "(Utah) started to get some confidence because they started to get easy paint scores, so they turned it up a notch. The ball movement we had in the first quarter, we just kind of lacked."

Utah would actually go on to lead by 13 points (88-75) with 3:26 to play before Detroit had a final flurry come up short.

"They came out early in the third quarter and punched us in the face," Pistons guard Brandon Knight said of the Jazz. "There was nothing we could really do about it. Instead of us fighting back, we just laid down a little bit."

The trend of blowing big leads was something Detroit had struggled with early in the season, but seemed to nip in the bud in this recent 10-game stretch.

Coming into Saturday, Detroit was 7-2 in its last nine games, with both losses coming in overtime. However, the Pistons have now lost two of their last three after holding a double-digit lead in both games.

Foul or no foul

The Pistons had a chance to tie the game as time expired, but Knight had a 3-point attempt come up short from the wing.

Austin Daye received the inbounds pass from Tayshaun Prince with four seconds on the clock, but couldn't get a look at the basket, so he passed it off to Knight. He was able to square up, but had his shot challenged by Utah forward DeMarre Carroll.

Carroll made some contact with Knight, but it was hard to say if there was a foul, or if Carroll was able to get a piece of the ball before making contact. Knight's shot came up well short of the rim.

"It was a good defensive play. For me, a shot like that doesn't just come up short just because. Either he tipped it in my arm, or something like that happened," Knight said of the shot. "He hit some part of the ball, some part of the arm. I am not sure. Like I said, it ended up being a short shot. There is nothing I can do about it now and nothing the team can do about it now."

Frank said the play was drawn up for Daye to ideally get the shot. He would not comment on if he felt Knight was fouled.

Frank T'd up

With 10:05 left in the game, Frank was whistled for a technical foul for being out of the coach's box.

The game was tied 68-68 at the time following a Will Bynum lay-up. Frank appeared to be signaling to his team near midcourt, but the officials felt he had stepped too far on the floor.

"I was just communicating to our team what defense we were in, but they said I was on the court, so automatically gave a (technical)," Frank said. "I'm not going to get into the officiating, but all those things add up."

Frank wasn't the only one caught off guard by the call.

"I was very surprised," Daye said of the technical foul. "You usually don't see that. I didn't really see the play. It's rough to give up points like that. Usually the refs kind of let that go, but I guess they felt they needed to call that at the time."

The Pistons would eventually tie the game at 69-69, but would trail the rest of the game after that.